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Don't Ban Student Emails
Students learn something from the way professors respond, even to messages that never should have been sent, writes Danielle DeRise.
Converting Reading Teachers
Community college instructors across disciplines can teach reading comprehension, thanks to an expanding training program that is winning believers.
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The Course is Dead. Long Live the Course.
The pushes toward modular instruction and competency-based education are significant, but don't expect traditional forms of teaching to disappear, writes Dan Butin.
Advising Freshmen, Empowering Faculty
It's hard to offer meaningful advising to new students before they arrive on campus. But Sewanee says it can be done, with professors making key decisions.
The Quest for Critical Thinking
The Quest for Critical Thinking is a free compilation of essays -- in print-on-demand format -- on how colleges seek...
'Aspiring Adults Adrift'
In a new book, the authors of Academically Adrift return to report on how the same cohort of "meandering" students are faring after graduation. It's not a pretty picture.
Less Prescriptive in California
California's Democratic leaders have taken a gentler approach in push for the state's colleges to get creative with online courses, including with a $50 million award fund.
Opinion
In-Class Writing, 2014 Edition
As a new academic year begins, Ulf Kirchdorfer contemplates the end of cursive, having his composition students write essays on their smartphones, and more.